Podcast: The Lake Hoare Field Camp
Antarctica is a big continent, and often researchers need to work in regions far away from the main research station. The Antarctic Sun is taking...
Month : December 2021
Antarctic ice cores help pinpoint timing of human arrival in New Zealand
Scientific detective work has helped researchers determine when humans first arrived in New Zealand, one of the last places on Earth to be settled....
Podcast: The Berg Field Center
The Antarctic Sun is taking a behind-the-scenes look at the workers and what they do to make science at the bottom of the world possible....
Heavy Cosmic Rays – Part II: The Death and Life of SuperTIGER-II
The season before SuperTIGER-II’s successful 2019 flight, the payload had an unexpectedly short flight over Antarctica. Brought down after less than a day because of...
Podcast: Marine Operations
The Antarctic Sun is taking a behind-the-scenes look at the workers and what they do to make science at the bottom of the world possible....
Southernmost Telescope Gets an Array of Upgrades
One of the telescopes at the bottom of the world is getting a major upgrade. The South Pole’s venerable Keck Array is being reconstituted into...
We Are All Scientists
In the midst of the austral winter, as total darkness and below-zero temperatures encompass McMurdo Station, the pace of science slows somewhat. A science fair...
An Aerial Assessment of Adelie Penguins
Flying robots are helping scientists track the population of Adelie Penguins. This past austral summer, researchers flew a small fleet of coordinated unmanned aerial vehicles,...
Fathoming Life Under the Ice
This past austral summer season, two artists who specialize in science communication visited McMurdo Station to begin a multi-media, multi-faceted project with the aim of...
A Bot in the Ocean
During the past austral summer, scientists released an autonomous seafaring robot into the Southern Ocean. For four months, the small “Wave Glider” navigated the frigid...
